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2012-04-17 Talking That Talk

*LunchBunch

Daviss: not to much..what about you? oh, do you have Birmingham Adams ties?

alt: not much.... B'ham & Adams ... not that I know of... got something for me?

Daviss: I ran across a Oscar Adams picture and saw that he was in B'ham but also saw he was a pastor in the AME Church and thought of you I tried going back to save and send but had trouble last night and did not get to do it...

alt: Wow!!! My grandfather's brother was an Oscar Adams... and he was an AME, but he died in the the mid 1920's.

Daviss: this picture may have been in the 20's. I was searching for some articles on Emancipation

alt: careful now... you might be uncovering some Adams folks I don't know about LOL

Daviss: lol lol hi vkn!

alt: hello vkn. How "be's' ya?

vkn: Howdy doody

Seventies Soulchild: Hello alt, Daviss, & vkn

vkn: I bees good alt

Daviss: How's it going vkn?

alt: hi Ms. Seventies Soulchild, has it cooled off in the NY area?

Daviss: Hi Seventies!!

Seventies Soulchild: Yes by about 15 degrees.

alt: okay, can't have you 'over-heating" LOL LOL

Seventies Soulchild: alt, you know that accident with my cousin happened in Van Wert, OH. Had you ever heard of it???

vkn: Going well daviss and how goes your searching?

Daviss: Not well vkn on my end vkn

alt: Yeah, I know Van Wert.... is this the recent loss in your family Seventies Soulchild?

Daviss: oops too many vkn's lol

Seventies Soulchild: yes alt. It took so much time to find the story online.. name changes with her. She had 3 husbands. Plus I didn't know the accident happened in Ohio

alt: Not too many AA's living in that area Seventies Soulchild, was she a resident of Van Wert?

Seventies Soulchild: No she lived in Taylor, MI and was driving along 127

vkn: Oh well we need a few this vkn is overworked and underpaid lol

Seventies Soulchild: There had been another accident there around the same time she had her accident.

Daviss: Was this another person besides the one you talked about last week seventies!!

Seventies Soulchild: No Daviss, same person.

alt: okay, I know Rt 127 and the route to Taylo, MI.. have driven on it a few times.... 2 lane highway & somewhat curvy.

Seventies Soulchild: ok The funeral arrangements are still not made. Her children are just devastated.

alt: oh my, I can imagine

Seventies Soulchild: Their father came up to assist.

Daviss: I can imagine

Seventies Soulchild: She was only 51

alt: oh no, that is way too young.

Seventies Soulchild: I agree alt.

vkn: We are seldom prepared for these tragic events. So very sorry!

alt: does the family line in Taylor, MI?

Seventies Soulchild: This line is my father's family. His eldest sister Julia left Alabama and moved to Detroit, MI.

alt: hello AYWAlton, how you doing today?

Seventies Soulchild: This was her youngest child.

AYWalton: good afternoon, all.

Seventies Soulchild: Hi AYWalton

AYWalton: howdy alt, Daviss, SoulChile greetings, vkn!!!!!!!

vkn: Howdy AYW

Daviss: Hello AYWalton!!!

alt: oh my, that is devestating, she is around the age of my daughters.

Seventies Soulchild: They are descendants of the Tyus family, the same line of the man Lewis Tyus who was the executor of the estate of Baxter Smith who freed our ancestors Charity and Harriet

AYWalton: just catching up reading, so very sorry to read about the loss, SoulChile.

vkn: Trying to chat from ipad and it is a bit awkward to manage

Seventies Soulchild: Thank you AYWalton.

alt: hang in there vkn.. you ucan handle it.

Seventies Soulchild: vkn, do you have an external keyboard for that? Or is it built in to the programming?

alt: probably better than I can from this PC LOL LOL

Daviss: can you see me trying to use Ipad lol

Seventies Soulchild: oh Daviss, you'd be a whiz! lol My 2 yr old godson uses it all the time.. lol He thinks everything is a touch screen lol

Daviss: lol lol

alt: hope everyone has finished with the Tax man... Today is his day LOL

Seventies Soulchild: I missed my coffee yesterday.. I couldn't even get up to make a cup

vkn: Good article on last night. I have not read in full but on my 2do list AYW

Seventies Soulchild: But I made up for it today!

Daviss: I spilled mine when Seventies said her godson types better than me lol

AYWalton: sorry I stepped away.

Seventies Soulchild: My 2 year old godson... lol

Daviss: lol @ seventies

alt: trying to get some younger family members interested in fam hist & genalogy... put some 1940census images w/photos from the 2010 fam reunion on the Adams Family website.. think I'll drop some of them on Face book too.

AYWalton: which article, vkn?

Daviss: Hi there Selma!!

vkn: Just mentioning your blog ayw

Seventies Soulchild: You know did anyone catch Dr.Gates Sunday night? I totally forgot about it

Selma: Good Tuesday afternoon folks

AYWalton: howdy Mizz Selma!!

Seventies Soulchild: alt, that would be great. I've started that video BTW.. I wasn't kidding with Melvin.

AYWalton: I missed it, SoulChile

vkn: Howdy Selma

AYWalton: which video SoulChile?

alt: I saw Gates on Sunday's program

Daviss: I did not catch him either Seventies, I was at my grands affair at ASU

Seventies Soulchild: Melvin made a video on YouTube for the Reed family Reunion in Chicago.

AYWalton: ahhh ok.

Seventies Soulchild: Daviss, she is looking more and more like you everday... wow

Daviss: thx Seventies, she is a cutie pie

alt: nice photo of your grand at the ASU event Daviss

Seventies Soulchild: Let me take a break from watching "Roots the Next Generation".

Daviss: ty alt

Seventies Soulchild: I'm going to see if the episode has been posted online.

Daviss: I will have to catch it that way also.

Seventies Soulchild: Who in the world are these people? Angela Buchdahl Rick Warren Yasir Qadhi

vkn: About newspapers and abolition Avec Indians ayw not remembering exact a

Seventies Soulchild: did you browse through the free proquest newspapers vkn?

Daviss: Rick Warren is that controversal minister, not sure of the others

vkn: Not member title

alt: a female rabbi of Korean origin and a Pakastani muslim Seventies Soulchild

Seventies Soulchild: alt, tell Irita hello. And to keep looking for those Sheltons for me in Michigan! lol

AYWalton: going to run, folks. Gotta make some calls. have a good day.

Seventies Soulchild: Later AYWatlon

alt: will do Seventies Soulchild

Seventies Soulchild: Is anyone indexing major cities? I'm having trouble in Detroit, MI and St. Louis, MO

alt: not me Seventies Soulchild

Selma: What kind of trouble?

Seventies Soulchild: Looking for the Gary family. Mary Gary, Ruth Gary and some of the boys. Mary died in St. Louis, MO Sister Ruth and Mom Carried died in Northern AL. Buried at Tuskegee. I don't know why.. sisters were both born and raised in Adams Co., MS

alt: I don't know the 'geography' of the major cities to do any good with them Seventies Soulchild when searching by ED's.

Selma: Oh I thought you were indexing the city..and was having problems

Seventies Soulchild: If I could index that well and fast, Selma I"d have had it done by now... lol

Selma: You don't know why they were buried in places other than adams Co. MS

Seventies Soulchild: I do know that sister Margaret attended Tuskegee. I think maybe Carrie may have also. These people moved so much.

Selma: They moved alot more than folks think..it is interesting, somehow we see ourselves as more mobile

alt: once they got educated Seventies Soulchild, you couldn't keep them 'down on the farm' LOL

Seventies Soulchild: They lived in more places than I have and I was in the military!

Selma: LOL

Seventies Soulchild: I guess not alt! lol Chester moved to OK with his brother Scott Jr. and then later Carrie and her children. Then Margaret live in MO, AL and finally NC

alt: okay bbenn, I haven't been doing much with the DNA stuff as of lately.

Seventies Soulchild: My son just called and asked me to buy him a pair of Khaki pants for his concert tonight. The one item he just doesn't have. ugh.

Selma: Is he in the band seventies?

Seventies Soulchild: You know it! :} Trumpet in band and drums on the side

alt: then 'hop to it, Momma' LOL LOL

Selma: My grandson plays clarinet..he wanted to play drums..but position was filled

Seventies Soulchild: Clarinet is good, I played that in the band. I started out on drums. Influenced by Shelia E.

bbenn: I check maybe once a week and then I get all kinds of information to verify kinship..

Selma: I think she is going to be playing tonight on Dancing with the Stars tonight..one of my Mom's favorite shows.. LOL

Seventies Soulchild: Selma, but I totally got bored with it. Oh yea?

Selma: Last night and tonight is Latin night..Santana played last night When I was in HS in NY in the early 60's Latin music and dances were the hot thing

Seventies Soulchild: did you see Shelia E. on Unsung? I had no idea that she was 'half' black. Mom is Creole.

bbenn: It liiks as if Gladys is hanging in there:}

alt: I put my stuuf in the 23andme profile bbenn, if folks want to find me and what I have genealogywise it is all there for them to 'peruse' lO

vkn: I noTiced Santana

bbenn: That's a great idea.

Seventies Soulchild: Alright, let me go grab a pair of pants from the 'company' store... love being able to shop at work! lol One of the perks. talk to you all tonight.

Selma: I hope you get a discount

Seventies Soulchild: No discount.

Selma: Ugh

alt: later Seventies Soulchild

Seventies Soulchild: Later all

vkn: Naptime peeps see you 2nite

bbenn: Santana is still going strong:}

alt: I like DWTS.. that Jaleel White can really dance IMHO.

bbenn: I also need a nap but need to clean-up before the grandchild comes overlol Unfortunately, Jaleel is getting a bad rep...what's going on with him? He had a breakdown last week..

alt: dunno bbenn is it quittin time? LOL

bbenn: Selma, have you ever submitted a brick wall to the Sanford African American track?

Selma: No.. This is my first time going to that track

bbenn: OK, I am thinking about submitting my brick wall challenge. I still need to find a place to stay.

Selma: I told Angela I am still deciding if I am going to Samford or SLC..I can't do both..have big family reunion in Florida this summer

bbenn: Well, that's difficult decision. I have my plane ticket for Samford and will go as planned. I was also invited to carry the flag for the Homestead Parade in Nebraska. It will cost me $200 just to change my ticket. The parade is on the 16th at 9 am . I am not going to the parade.

Selma: Oh.. But I do understand..

bbenn: Cannot afford to lose $200 to rebook a ticket that will cost over $600.

Selma: There are 2 other conferences in Oct 2012..AAHGS In Nc and VGS in Lynchburg VA Plus it is so close to Christmas..

bbenn: Too many conferences...mo moneylol lol lol

Selma: I know, I know.. LOL I will decide by the end of this week.

bbenn: it's time to start offering webinars...

Selma: Thats a thought..well I gotta run, got a meeting at 3 this afternoon